Talk:Roadkill

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if anyone has any experience with this, first hand, please feel free to contribute!

ie, how do you tell how long the thing's been dead, good cooking techniques, etc. --firsty 12:08, 5 July 2006 (PDT)

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Dude, this is plain wrong and f*cked up. There is a reason why some faiths don't allow eating natural carcassases : They are usually teeming with disease. Eating roadkill is more likely to do worse to you than hunger.

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As long as you are not Jewish or Muslim and maybe others too, (Orthodox Judaism allows it to stay alive from starvation) eating road kill is no different than commercial captured bolt gun to the skull or a rifle shot. If you see the accident and ensure the animal is really dead (that injured animal can still gore you terribly) it should be OK for food, although a burst urinary bladder, gall bladder, or digestive tract can be a problem ruining some of the meat so open and clean it quickly. Once properly cooked (above 170F through to the center of the piece meat, tested with a good thermometer) for several hours even rotted and infested meat is safe to eat just totaly disgusting to a western palate. Even maggot or worm infested meat while revolting is an emergency source of protien, Now excuse me while I GAAAAK!!

We used to do this as kids but never ate them just let them go, anyone think it is worth posting?

Urban Pigeon Hunting

If the soup kitchens are providing nothing but watered broth and the dumpsters are picked clean there is still an easy source of protein if you are careful and fits your philosophy. First of all realize that this is both contraversial in that some will call it cruelty and secondly it could be an excuse for the pigs to haul you in.

While in China rat is sold in markets and racoon, cat, rabbit, and squirrel all exist in the urban zones they are too often diseased or dangerous as they fight back. Other birds like seaguls (except the occasional dove or duck) are also too gross because of their garbage and rotten garbage diets.

The best meat is the simple stupid urban pigeon. The easiest way to catch them is with a little bread trail for bait, a box with a stick hlding it propped up, and about twenty feet of string. Bird follows trail of bread, you pull string, stick lets box fall, bird is trapped. You can use other methods like nets or a loop of string and hope to catch a leg but this seems the easiest and most humane. Put your hand under the box and grab your bird.

Look him over are his feathers looking good or is he shedding, Is he infested with bugs or weak and sluggish, are his eyes looking filmy or gross, if so throw him back, and wash your hands he is probably diseased. If he looks good snap or cut his neck quickly so it will be over for him. Cut him open from neck to tail and look his insides over are they glistening smooth and come out easily or are they all stuck together and spotty, if they look bad or wormy again chuck him out and let a cat or racoon have him, rinse out the gut area before proceeding. You might consider plucking before cutting open(it is too hard after) to save the skin and fats fats, but most of us just peel the skin off and cook like a mini chicken. A pigeon soup would be the safest way to go, let it boil for at least a half hour, but an hour is better, drink or save the broth.

Anyone who is offendend but eats meat must remember that at least this bird lived a free life and died quickly unlike the gross factory chickens you might be eating form the store.

This text should be on the article page and not the talk page. I'm moving it.....

Jedite83 22:15, 15 December 2007 (MST)

Possible food stuffs

I put this section there so anyone can add info about certin animals that make good (or bad) road kill food. Jedite83 22:15, 15 December 2007 (MST)